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The article reports that cinder blocks are often used as a dummy payload. In the relative overall scheme of things (cost of mission, Musk's wealth), there's not a whole lot of price/cost difference between a big load of cinder blocks and a car. No harm done to anyone or anything, except to the article author's sensibilities. I think it was a cool thing to do, and reflects the out-of-box thinking that makes Musk the success he is.

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